Buttercup-cutter.



No. 764,337. PATBNTED JULY 5.1904. J. E. BLAIR.

BUTTERGUP CUTTER.

.APPLIQATION FILED 00T.. 29. 1903. No MODEL. 2 sHBBTswsHBET 1.

No. 764,337. PATENTED JULY 5, 1904. J. E. BLAIR.

BUTTERCUP GUTTER.

v APPLIOATION FILED 00T. 29. 1903.

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mechanism in a closed condition.

UNITED STATES Patented July 5, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES E. BLAIR, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSISI-NOR TO CONFIC'IIONERS AND BAKERS SUPPLY CO., A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

BUTTERCUP-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 764,337, dated. July 5, 1904.

Application4 filed October 29, 1903.

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Be it known that I, .IAMns E. BLAIR, a citizen of the United States'of America, and aresident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new andnseful Improvements in Buttercup-Cutters, of which the following is a specication.

The present invention relates to that class of buttercup-cutters described in the Walker patent, No. l)86,911 of November 29, 1892, and has for its object to provide a simple and desirable structural formation and combination of the parts of a candy-cutting machine, whereby an accurate and efiicient cutting of the candy strip is attained and with which a ready removal and replacement of a disabled part can be quickly effected, all as will hereinafter more fully appear and be more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrative of the present invention, Figure 1 is a general plan view of a buttereup-cntter embodying the present invention. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of one of the cutter-blade sections of the present construction. Fig. 3 is a detail transverse section at line fr fr, Figs. 1 and (5, illustrating the mechanism in an open condition. Fig. 4 is a similar view of the Fig. 5 is a detail end elevation with the mechanism in a closed condition. Fig. 6 is a detail longitudinal section at line w' rc', Fig. 3.

Similar numerals of reference indicate likeparts in the several views.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the lower and stationary cutter-carrying bedplate of the machine, of an elongated rectangularl form and with its surface formed with a longitudinal rabbet-groove for the reception of the series of stationary cutter-blades hereinafter described.

2 is the upper and movable cutter-carrying plate, of alike elongated and rectangularforin to the aforesaid bed-plate 1 and also formed .with a longitudinal rabbet-groovein its under surface for the reception of theseries of Inovable cutter-blades hereinafter described.

3 and 4 are rcarwardly-extendingl hinge members on the respective cutter-carrying Serial No. 179,023. (No model.)

plates 1 and 2, each of which is formed with pintle-eyes for the reception of the connecting-pintles 5to constitute hinge connections between the respective cutter-carrying plates aforesaid.

6 represents one or lnore rearwardly-extending brackets on the bed-plate 1, to which the hereinafter-described operating-lever of the machine is fulcrumed by a link or other usual connection. y

7 is the operating lever or the handle of the machine, fulcrumed at its rear end to the bracket or brackets 6, above described, and having operative connection intermediate its length with the upper cutter-carrying plate 2, as usual in the present type of machines.

8 represents the cutter-sections of the present invention, each comprising a iiat rectangular holder-section adapted to lit the rabbetgroove in the aforesaid cutter-carrying plate 1 or 2 and secured in proper position therein by attaching-screws passing through oriiices 9 in said block, and a series of cutter-blades 10 of a rectangular form secured in spaced and parallel relation to each other in the afore` said section 8 by rectangular corner exten sions 11, which it in a corresponding series of kerfs in the sides of said section, as illustrated in Fig. 2, and secured therein in any usual manner. In such construction a required number of cutter-blades 10 will be secured to a flat holder-section 8, and the re quired number of the cutterssections so formed will be secured in the respective cutter-carrying plates 1 and 2 in accordance with the length of the machine required. The advantages arising from the described construction are as follows: The cutter-blades 10 can be initially secured in the holder-section 8 in an easy, accurate, and economical manner, and a disabled section can be removed and replaced in a like easy and ready manner.

12 is a strippereframc arranged in a horizontal plane immediately above tl i stationary cutter-carrying plate 1 and provided with a series of transverse slats 13, which are arranged between the series of cutter-blades carried by said" plate land with the upper surface of said slats on a level with the upper edge of said cutter-blades when not forcibly depressed, as hereinafter described. In the present improvement such stripper-frame is vertically guided and yieldingly supported by an arrangement of parts as follows:

14 represents pairs of vertical guide-rods near each end of the machine provided with removable bearingheads 15 at their upper ends and upon which the stripper-frame is supported by the bearing thereon of individual ltransverse slats 13 of said frame, as shown in Figs. 3, 4, and 6.

16 represents screws attaching the stripper-frame to the vertical guide-rods 14 and adapted to permit of a ready detachment and removal of the stripper-frame when required.

17 represents enlarged heads on the lower ends of the vertical guide-rods 14, which are arranged in and guided by counterbores 18 in the lower bed-plate 1 of the machine and limited in an upward movement by the stopshoulders at the upper ends of such counterbores, as illustrated in Figs. 3, 4, and 6.

19 represents springs surrounding the guiderods 14 and having' bearing, respectively, against the top of the bed-plate 1 and the under face of the bearing-heads 15 aforesaid, with a tendencj7 to force and hold the stripper-frame 12 in the upper position heretofore referred to.

20 represents projecting lugs on the respective ends of the bed-plate 1, and 21 repre- Sents corresponding lugs on the upper and movable plate 2.

22 represents projecting plates at the respective ends of the stripper-frame 12, provided with central orifices 23 for the purpose hereinafter stated.

24 represents vertically-arranged screwbolts individual to the lugs 20 aforesaid and adjustable therein to form adjustable abutments or stops for the hereinafter-described regulating-bolts of the upper cutter-carrying frame 2.

25 represents regulating screw-bolts individual to the end lugs 21 aforesaid and in substantially axial alinement with the before-described central orifices 23 and abutment-bolts 24 and so that in a final downward movement of the upper cutter-carrying plate 2 the lower ends of the bolts 25 will pass through the orifices 23 and contact with the abutment-bolts 24. The upper ends of said bolts 25 are adaptable in the respective lugs 21, so that the relativc closing of the opposed series of cutters in the present machine can be adjusted to suit any particular requirement arising in the actual use of the machine.

26 represents adjustable nuts screwing upon the bolts 25 aforesaid and adapted in a downward movement of the upper cutter-carrying frame 2 during a candy-cutting operation to depress the stripper-frame 12 in advance of the candy-cutting operation and tocontinue such depression as such candy-cutting operation progresses. By the adjustable nature of the nuts 26 the degree of such depression of the stripper-frame in advance of the cutting operation is regulated to suit any particular requirement, and in consequence the function of the stripper-plate to force the cut buttercups, &c., upward from between the series of stationary cutter-blades of the machine is performed in a very eflicient and practical manner.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a cutting-machine provided with opposed series of cutter-blades and a yielding stripper-frame for one of the series of blades, thel combination of upper and lower heads provided with longitudinal open-ended channels in their opposed faces, a series of counterpart blocks secured end to end in said channels and a series of cutter-blades fixed in each of said blocks, substantially as set forth.

2. In a cutting-machine provided with opposed series of cutter-blades and a yielding stripper-frame for one of the series of blades, the combination of upper and lower heads provided with longitudinal open-ended channels in their opposed faces, a series of counterpart blocks secured end to end in said channels, and a series of cutter-blades formed with rectangular corner extensions fitting correspondingly-formed grooves in each of said blocks, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination in a cutting-machine of the character herein described, of a lower stationary cutter-carrying plate, an upper cutter-carrying plate movable to and from said lower plate, series of opposed cutter-blades arranged in spaced relation and carried by said plates, a horizontal stripper-frame having transverse slats arranged between the cutterblades of the lower plate, and means for yieldingly supporting said stripper-frame, consisting of a series of guide-rods connected to said stripper-frame and having headed lower ends guided in counterbores in the stationary cutter-carrying plate, and springs interposed between said plate and the stripper-frame, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination of a cutting-machine of the character herein described, of a lower stationary cutter-carrying plate, an upper cutter-carrying plate movable to and from said lower plate, series of opposed cutter-blades arranged in spaced relation and carried by said plates, a horizontal stripper -frame having transverse slats arranged between the cutterblades of the lower plate, and means for yieldingly supporting said stripper-frame, consistving of a series of guide-rods having removable bearing-heads at the upper ends and enlarged heads at their lower end guided in counterbores in the stationary cutter-carrying plate, screws for securing the stripper-frame in a detachable manner to the guide rods, and springs interposed between the bearing-heads IOO IIO

aforesaid and the lower cutter-carrying plate, substantially as set forth.

5. The combination in a cutting-rnachine of the character herein 'described of a lower stationary cutter-carrying plate provided with lugs at each end, adjustable abutment-screws in said lugs, an upper cutter-carrying plate i movable to and from said lower plate and provided with lugs at each end, regulating screwbolts adjustable :in said lugs, adjustable nuts screwing upon said bolts, series of opposed cutter-blades arranged in spaced relation and carried by the respective plates aforesaid, a

JAMES E. BLAIR.'

Vitnesses:

ROBERT BURNS, M. H. HOLMES. 

